Actors Needed To Perform Hiroshima Survivor's Story

Auditions for the Theater Company's production of A Thousand Cranes are scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Cultural Arts Center, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.

The Kathryn Shultz Miller drama is the true story of Sakado Saski, who was stricken with ``radiation sickness'' (leukemia) 10 years after the bombing of her city, Hiroshima. Reminded of an old story, she begins folding 1,000 paper cranes, hoping to receive her wish and restore her health.

The play, directed by Darlene Lentz, calls for four or five actors of varying age, race and gender. The actors must be able to move well and be available for daytime performances.

A Thousand Cranes will be performed for upper elementary and middle school students at the Cultural Arts Center Feb. 8 through 19.

THE PLANETARIUM at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach will begin its monthly after-hours program on the first Tuesday of every month next week.

The program, which is presented from 6 to 9 p.m., is free to Volusia County residents.

Included will be videos of spacewalks on the first mission to the International Space Station; live planetarium presentations by Roger Hoefer, astronomy curator at the museum; and telescope viewing of Saturn, Jupiter and the moon.